home ground

英 [ˌhəʊm ˈɡraʊnd]

美 [ˌhoʊm ˈɡraʊnd]

n.  主场场地; 主队运动场; 自己的家; 熟悉的工作地方; 自己的地盘

牛津词典

noun

• 主场场地；主队运动场
  a sports ground that a team regularly plays on in their own area or town
• 自己的家；熟悉的工作地方；自己的地盘
  a place where sb lives or works and where they feel confident, rather than a place that is not familiar to them
  1. I'd rather meet him here on my own home ground.
     我宁愿在我自己的地盘上见他。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR （体育比赛的）主场场地
  A sports team'shome groundis their own playing field, as opposed to that of other teams.
  1. They are banned from playing on their home ground because of crowd trouble...
     他们因观众闹事而被禁止在主场比赛。
  2. Austria, playing on home ground in Vienna, took a 3-0 lead over Italy.
     奥地利队在维也纳自家赛场以3比0领先意大利队。

in AM, use 美国英语用 home field


• PHRASE 在自己的家（或工作地）附近;在自己的地盘上
  If you say that someone isontheirhome ground, you mean that they are in or near where they work or live, and feel confident and secure because of this.
  1. Although he was on home ground, his campaign had been rocked by adultery allegations.
     虽然是在自己家乡，他的竞选活动还是因私通指控受到了冲击。

英英释义

noun

• the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
  1. a marine habitat
  2. he felt safe on his home grounds
  Synonym:habitat

双语例句

• Austria, playing on home ground in Vienna, took a 3-0 lead over Italy.
  奥地利队在维也纳自家赛场以3比0领先意大利队。
• The team will be playing on home ground.
  那个队将在主场比赛。
• The poor child home early masters of the barren ground of poplar long life.
  穷人家里的孩子早当家，贫瘠地里的白杨寿命长。
• But keep your eyes on the swiss and on the team from Germany home ground advantage has allways been hard to beat.
  但我们也不能忽视瑞士以及拥有主场之利的德国，这种主场优势使德国人难以被征服。
• All night they sat above, keeping watch over the home under the ground and awaiting the big attack by the pirates which obviously could not be much longer delayed.
  他们整夜坐在上面，守卫着地下的家，静候着海盗们的大举进攻，因为海盗们的进攻显然已经近在眼前。
• Liberals may have loathed the Chicago school, but Hayek felt on home ground in an intellectual atmosphere so like the Vienna of his youth.
  自由主义者本来也可能厌恶芝加哥学派的，但哈耶克觉得这种学术氛围非常象他年轻时代的维也纳。
• It had become a very familiar scene, this, in the home under the ground, but we are looking on it for the last time.
  这种景象在地下的家里是常见的；不过，我们是最后一次见到了。
• The interview was fairly difficult until they asked me about car maintenance, where I was on my home ground and could impress them with the extent of my knowledge.
  面试开始时进行得相当当艰难，直到他们问我所熟悉的汽车维修时，我广博的知识才给他们有了好印象。
• Quite often we have to play host to them though it's their home ground.
  经常是在他们地盘还得我们招待他们。
• There has also been proactive coordination by the New Zealand agencies responsible for implementing the FTA, both at home and on the ground here in China.
  新西兰在新、在华负责实施自贸协定的政府机构的积极协调，也是功不可没的。